TRADITIONAL VIEW OF GENES. “A process perspective brings to the foreground two major problems with this substantialist picture. The first has to do with the supposed atomistic nature of genes, and the second concerns the view of reproduction as the transmission of a set of things, an act construed as a sort of passing of genetic batons. Genes for all kinds of phenotypic traits— from fur colour to sexual preference—were conceived of as sequences of nucleotides that have the power to cause or alter these developmental outcomes.”
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